NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner Which retail games still don't have known prototypes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=167132 2017-01-04T20:02:05 -05.00 bootload 15 Which retail games still don't have known prototypes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=167132 2017-01-01T22:02:54 -05.00 bootload 15 Originally posted by: TheRedEye

I remember DreamTR was trying to complete the U.S. NES Sunsoft library in prototype form, and if I remember right he got down to just missing Sky Kid, so that might be one.
I was recently talking with someone about prototypes they might be willing to part with and Sky Kid came up. So, it is definitely out there.
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But yeah, this is pretty much impossible to be definitive on. I remember NES World and The Warp Zone back in the old days attempted to document all of the known NES prototypes, but I don't think anyone has really carried the torch from there. Evan's done a pretty admirable job doing SNES stuff on SNES Central, but this is one of those things where you'd pretty much have to be a big proto collector to be motivated enough to document everything, I think. ]]> Which retail games still don't have known prototypes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=167132 2016-12-09T07:55:04 -05.00 bootload 15 Originally posted by: steven78

skate or die never seen it or heard of it. if some one got or you have a lead let me know it is on the top of my want list
I could have sworn I have seen a skate or die proto. Never mind, it was skate or die 2. 

I am pretty sure that I have seen a SE proto, but I can't seem to find a link.  Can anyone?

Here is some info about Little Samson http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/little-samson/ ]]> Which retail games still don't have known prototypes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=167132 2016-12-03T06:40:00 -05.00 bootload 15 Which retail games still don't have known prototypes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=167132 2016-11-29T08:41:52 -05.00 bootload 15 Originally posted by: Niiue
 
Originally posted by: bootload

Not necessarily a list, I'm just wondering which games are completely unknown by anyone to have a prototype. Stadium Events? Little Samson? Aero Fighters? Flintstones?

There actually is a Little Samson prototype, though it doesn't seem likely to ever become publicly available.
There are a few examples of LS prototypes out there, and they've popped up on eBay in the past.  There are also a few known examples of FS2 prototypes out there as well.  I don't know of a true SE prototype, and while I don't follow SNES I do recall there being an AF prototype on eBay in the past.
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Not necessarily a list, I'm just wondering which games are completely unknown by anyone to have a prototype. Stadium Events? Little Samson? Aero Fighters? Flintstones?
There actually is a Little Samson prototype, though it doesn't seem likely to ever become publicly available. ]]> Which retail games still don't have known prototypes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=167132 2016-11-18T23:11:38 -05.00 bootload 15 Which retail games still don't have known prototypes? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=35&threadid=167132 2016-10-30T17:16:02 -05.00 bootload 15 Originally posted by: CD2193

Kinda hard to define "known" with these kinds of things. There are obviously many prototypes out there, but some might only be known to exist thanks to magazine or other press coverage. There aren't a lot of physical media archiving sites for prototypes, so many are probably known by way of an auction (and sometimes poorly listed ones), but unless someone commits the info to a public archive or something, they may as well be unknown. Agreed with that one.  All of the prototypes and samples I've had donated to me this year were previously laying around in the homes of former developers, reviewers or other former industry people.  They were "known" to those people but not to anyone outside of there.

I also think we are still in the dark ages on this sort of thing.  People are just now truly starting to understand the importance of true archiving of anything video game related, and I'm finding it is still an uphill battle at that.  We presently have no centralized list of who has what and where it is nor enough people actively searching.

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